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If that’s the case, then the real secret is not sales. It’s solving a problem. The Gateway people could’t begin to handle the intricacies of Windows, all they wanted was your credit card for the hardware. In the Apple stores, as we know, the focus is on answers. And occasional maintenance. And everything that’s on…

The olloclip 3-in-One Photo Lens certainly caught the eye of Mac Observer staff at Macworld | iWorld 2012. Ted Landau mentioned it in his overview of the show.  Jeff Gamet is going to cover it from the point of view of pixels and all that technical stuff. Me, I just want to talk about how fun…

I participated in a live demo of the Garmin GTU 10 at Macworld | iWorld, and the very first thing that came to my mind was an incident concerning a young man out riding his bicycle when he was hit by a car in a hit and run accident. He was thrown off the road…

The audio quality of the recording is quite low, but it’s well worth listening to if you want some insight on Apple’s new CEO. If you can’t listen, however, Philip Elmer-DeWitt and the team at Forbes put together a written transcript of the event. You’ll miss what we considered some of the emotional nuances (and…

According to Bloomberg, Apple says that during the early 1990s, it was involved in the development of a digital camera with Kodak, and that Kodak patented the resulting technology. Kodak has denied that and is currently suing Apple and Research in Motion over its image preview patent. That case, filed in January 2010, is still…

Proview CEO Yang Long-san told Reuters: “The customs have told us that it will be difficult to implement a ban because many Chinese consumers love Apple products. The sheer size of the market is very big. We have applied to some local customs for the ban and they’ll report to the headquarters in Beijing.”The CEO…

The change in the SEC’s position is attributed to the efforts of Trillium Asset Management, which led the push on behalf of itself and two other large shareholders. Farnum Brown, an investment strategist at Trillium, told Bloomberg: “It allows shareholders to come to the table for the first time on an issue that we think…

Bloomberg Businessweek reported on the data gathered by Flurry, a company dealing in mobile application development, analytics and advertising. That data indicated that developers made approximately one new Android app for every three iOS apps during January.That’s down from last year, when there were two Android apps created for every three iOS apps. And while this data…

The comments came when Goldman Sachs analyst Bill Shope asked Mr. Cook about its cash holdings, which stood at more than US$97 billion at the end of the December quarter. He said that Apple had been sparing in its use of that money and noted that there has been a lot of talk about an…

Mr. Misek argued that Apple has three main uses to which it can and will put its cash hoard to use. He said that Apple would continue to be “very aggressive” in capital spending, which includes expanding its retail presence, buying factory equipment (which Apple does with some of its OEM partners), and expanding its…

That score put Apple well ahead of number two Google’s score of 82.82—Google was number one in last year’s poll, and Harris Interactive stressed that Google’s score was still quite respectable. That serves to emphasize just how well Apple did in this year’s poll, as shown in the chart below. “Customer inclination towards strong leadership…

Pegatron recently received iPhone orders from Apple and is rumored to be one of the suppliers for the iPad 3 that many expect to be announced next month. Ironically, Pegatron is an Asustek spin-off, but it is expected to cease making the Zenbook by the end of March.Image via 9to5 Mac

Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice-president of Internet Software and Services, accepted the award on Mr. Jobs’ behalf, according to Jason O’Grady at ZDNet.Image courtesy of ZDNetIn a tribute to Mr. Jobs published on the Grammy Awards web site, cellist Yo-Yo Ma wrote: “Before I met Steve, I first had to say no to him.” He…

My first education came from Glenn Fleishman back in 2011: “Keep your Mac safe from Web security flaws.” That’s been a starter kit for me. It’s tough, scary, but fundamental to your Internet life. As a result of my research, I’ve found that Firefox checks the OSCP database automatically while Safari, with no help from…

The report leaned on the name “iTV,” which was recently put forward by a Wall Street analyst as the name Apple would go with when it introduces the product later in 2012. Apple currently markets a settop box under the name Apple TV. Two sets of sources were intimated by the report. The first set…

At the heart of the report is the idea that Apple wants to expand its existing store-within-a-store program beyond the two major retailers Apple is already working with, Best Buy and Target. According to the site’s sources, Sam’s Club is merely one such retailer that Apple is talking to, but it’s the one with a…

Some of Apple’s new OS X apps are exhibiting an interesting tendency. Instead of a brilliant user interface to deal with technical complexity, there is the removal of functionality. However, simpler isn’t always better. In times past, we were all amazed how Apple would take complex computer technologies on our Macs, distill them down to…

We checked with Apple, and the explanation is that the older model AirPort Express, Model A108x, supports only 802.11 b/g. One must have a newer model, A1264, which supports 802.11n, to configure it with AU 6. This limitation also extends to the older AirPort Extreme without the “n” capability. Users of OS X Lion can…

driPhone’s Self-Titled Case In filing its opposition to the trademark, Apple argued that, “the applicant’s trademark, or an essential element of it, is identical or similar to a trademark that is well-known in New Zealand [iPhone].” According to Stuff.co.nz, Apple has asked Mr. Crowther to change the name of his product to dryPhone in order…

Apparent’s new version of the Doxie scanner, the Doxie Go is not only portable, it does things that my big scanner can’t do. Doxie Go scannerFirst the stats. The MSRP is US$199.00. It will scan black and white or  full color pages at up to 600 dpi, in 8 seconds. The battery, which charges via…

Apple & HTC: Making it Real The patent infringement case between Apple and HTC is like the Whole Foods parking lot: it’s gettin’ real. AppleInsider has patent-tracker Florian Mueller poking at the issue. Among the many patents over which Apple has sued the Taiwanese phonemaker is one referred to as the ‘263 patent, which covers…

And the Galaxy Tab does have some nice features that are generally overlooked. Judge for yourself. To add more heat, there’s a rumor that Barnes & Noble is coming out with yet another new version of its Nook tablet. As I’ve said before, competitors are going to keep driving a truck through Apple’s open barn…

iBooks Author is Apple’s new ebook authoring software that was announced on January 19th. Free software, iBooks Author allows people to create books (with an initial focus on textbooks) for Apple’s new iBooks 2, which was announced at the same time. iBooks 2 is based on the ePub 3 format, but Apple used the classic…

Apple overturns injunction blocking iPhone and iPad salesApple told SlashGear that it appealed the injunction “because Motorola repeatedly refuses to license this patent to Apple on reasonable terms, despite having declared it an industry standard patent seven years ago.”The patent in question relates to 3G/UTMS technology and has been deemed critical to the industry.Motorola won…